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Apoorva Mehta, Max Mullen and Brandon Leonardo founded Instacart in 2012 and launched the service in the San Francisco Bay Area. The original model paired an app with independent shoppers who entered existing supermarkets, purchased customers’ requested items and delivered them to their homes.
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Realtek Semiconductor was incorporated in Taiwan on 21 October 1987. The fabless company focused on integrated circuits for communications and computer peripherals, developing products that could bring common functions onto cost-efficient chips.
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Semtech was founded in 1960 in Southern California and built a business around analogue and mixed-signal semiconductor products. For decades the company supplied power-management, protection, interface and signal-integrity technologies before becoming widely associated with a low-power wireless technology called LoRa.
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Kenichiro Sato founded the company that became ROHM in Kyoto in 1958, initially producing resistors for radios and other electronics. The original corporate name, R.ohm, reflected the resistor’s unit of electrical resistance before the business moved into semiconductors.
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Kakao’s modern history centres on KakaoTalk, the mobile messaging service launched in March 2010 by a company founded by internet entrepreneur Kim Beom-su. The service arrived as smartphones spread rapidly in South Korea and used mobile data rather than per-message SMS charges.
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Zia Chishti and Kelsey Wirth founded Align Technology in 1997 around the idea that a sequence of clear removable aligners could straighten teeth without conventional metal braces. The concept depended on digital modelling and manufacturing: scan a patient’s teeth, plan movement in software and fabricate a series of slightly different plastic aligners.
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Charles ‘Charlie’ Trimble and two partners founded Trimble in 1978, betting that satellite-based positioning could become useful far beyond the military and scientific applications of the era. The early company developed navigation and positioning equipment while the Global Positioning System itself was still being deployed.
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Bentley Systems was founded in 1984 by brothers Keith and Barry Bentley and soon grew into a family-led engineering-software company involving all five Bentley brothers. The business developed around MicroStation, software for computer-aided design used by engineers and infrastructure organisations.
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JFrog was founded in 2008 by Shlomi Ben Haim, Yoav Landman and Fred Simon, who saw software teams struggling to manage the growing number of binary packages produced during development. The company began with Artifactory, a repository manager designed to store and distribute software packages reliably across development and deployment pipelines.
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Dayforce’s corporate lineage runs through Ceridian, a human-resources and payroll company formed in the early 1990s, while the Dayforce cloud platform was founded separately by David Ossip. The two histories joined in 2012 when Ceridian acquired Dayforce and later made Ossip chief executive.
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